A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  • Arrival of snail mail letter - oncology appointment is in the diary

    The snail mail letter from the hospital arrived today, and my oncology appointment is booked for 27th April. I can take someone with me, very difficult choice between my lovely supportive husband, and my doctor niece, who happens to be a paediatricia...
  • An interlude of normality

    On my better days, I realise there is no point wasting today on worrying about what tomorrow will bring. The oncology appointment will get set up and I will hear about it by snail mail letter. Possibly Easter will get in the way too. Even if I move s...
  • Relief and frustration

    I had my follow up appointment today. Naively, I expected all the disciplines of the MDT to be at the clinic so that it was a one stop shop to agree what happens next, even if it meant a succession of meetings. But no, it was just the surgery team fe...
  • It starts

    Once upon a time there was no breast cancer. Well there probably was, but I didn’t know about it. Here we are in early April, diagnosed, stage 1 of my treatment completed (wide area excision plus sentinel lymph node biopsy), a few days away fro...